Bob Iger: Daily Routine

Bob Iger still wakes up at 4:15 am to VersaClimber workouts and guards his morning thoughts before ever checking his phone.

As the Executive Chairman of The Walt Disney Company, holding one of the most powerful positions in media, and with a net worth of $690 million, estimated by Forbes, Bob Iger still keeps the same 4am wake up routine of his earlier years when he was climbing the ranks.

Actually, he’s letting himself sleep in a little more these days, waking up at 4.15am instead now.

I never viewed myself as exceptional. And so whenever I got a job, I was relying on hard work more than anything and a level of enthusiasm and optimism. When I went to ABC Sports, everybody there went to Stanford or Dartmouth or Columbia.

As the CEO of Disney from 2005 until stepping down in February 2020, Iger was the driving force behind the company’s resurgence; spearheading the acquisition of several key assets, including Pixar in 2006, Marvel Entertainment in 2009, Lucasfilm in 2012 for $4.06 billion, and 21st Century Fox in 2019.